Ratites: Tinamous to kiwis


Megapodes, guans, guineas & New World Quail

Pheasants, partridges and francolins - Phasianidae

Loons, Penguins and Petrels

Grebes, Flamingos & Tropicbirds


Hamerkop, Shoebill, pelicans, boobies & cormorants

Raptors: NW vultures, secretarybird, kites, hawks & eagles

Bustards, mesites, seriemas, Kagu, flufftails & finfoots

Rails, gallinules & cranes

Buttonquail, plovers, seedsnipes & sandpipers

Coursers, noddies, gulls, terns, auks & sandgrouse


Hoatzin, turacos, cuckoos


Frogmouths, Oilbird, potoos & nightjars 2

Owlet-nightjars, treeswifts & swifts

Hummingbirds - Trochilidae

Mousebirds, trogons & Cuckoo Roller

Rollers, ground rollers & kingfishers

Todies, motmots, bee-eaters, hoopoes, wood hoopoes & hornbills

Jacamars, puffbirds, barbets, toucans & honeyguides




NZ wrens, broadbills & pittas

Ovenbirds & woodcreepers - Furnariidae

Antbirds - Thamnophilidae

Antthrushes, antpittas, gnateaters, tapaculos & crescentchests

Tyrant Flycatchers - Tyrannidae

Cotingas, manakins, tityras & becards

Lyrebirds, scrubbirds, bowerbirds & Australasian wrens

Honeyeaters - Meliphagidae

Bristlebirds, pardalotes & Australasian warblers

Australasian babblers, logrunners, satinbirds, painted berrypeckers, wattlebirds & whipbirds

Batises, woodshrikes, bushshrikes & vangas

Butcherbirds, Bristlehead, woodswallows, ioras & cuckooshrikes

Whiteheads, sittellas, & whistlers

Shrikes, vireos & shrike-babblers

Orioles, drongos & fantails


Crows, mudnesters & birds-of-paradise

Australasian robins, rockfowl, rockjumpers & Rail-babbler

Waxwings and their allies, tits & penduline tits

Nicators, reedling & larks



Pnoepyga wren-babblers, crombecs, bush warblers, Streaked Scrub Warbler, yellow flycatchers & hylias

Bushtits, leaf warblers and reed warblers

Grassbirds, donacobius, Malagasy warblers, cisticolas & allies


Laughingthrushes - Leiothrichidae

Sylviid babblers, parrotbills & white-eyes

Dapple-throats, sugarbirds, fairy-bluebirds, kinglets, hyliotas, wrens & gnatcatchers

Nuthatches, Wallcreeper, treecreepers, mockingbirds, startlings & oxpeckers


Chats & Old World Flycatchers - Muscicapidae

Dippers, leafbirds, flowerpeckers & sunbirds

Old World sparrows, snowfinches & weavers

Old World Warblers & babblers

Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors & pipits


New World Warblers and Oropendolas

Bananaquit, buntings, sparrows & bush tanagers

Tanagers, flowerpiercers & tanager-finches

Longspurs, grosbeaks & saltators
© John McKean